Today’s Gospel relates a
parable of the Kingdom of Heaven being likened to a farmer planting wheat in his field while an enemy, at night, strew weeds among the wheat(Mt 13: 24-30). When you and I were conceived, God planted a
seed, us! Each of us is a word of
the Word, containing the potential
to reach the greatness of being totally transformed into the image of God that
we are. In the Garden of Paradise Satan
planted seeds of disobedience and distrust of God—sin now exists in each one of
us alongside holiness. At every moment
of every day we are faced with the choice of choosing that which radiates the
face of God, reflects the image of God or that which is in opposition to God,
that is, the will of our egos which want to be their own god, be in control, and
dictate how to live in this world as gods.
The ego distrusts anything but itself, obeys no one but itself, chooses
only itself. That is its nature.
The seed of God’s will,
God’s power, God’s creativity, God’s goodness, God’s grace within us is always
juxtaposed to Satan’s will that we be our own god, that we push God out of
sight, that we deny God, as Peter had done and seek to be on the throne, as
James and John did when requesting to be at Jesus’ right and left in the
Kingdom.
The choice is mine: do I give nourishment to the seed of grace, the seed
of holiness, the seed of humility, the seed of obedience, the seed of love, the
seed of reconciliation even unto death or do I feed the ego and sin in me:
putting others down and myself up, evading and hiding truth from myself and others,
ignoring or oppressing the poor as the rich man ignored Lazarus at his
gate, placing heavy burdens upon others
as the Pharisees had done with no intention of lightening the burdens I impose, etc.?
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